All right. 

So if no one here's know this week is E3 week and well they announced some Second Son DLC, but during an interview about the DLC I learned something interesting that explains how Augustine kept control of the conduits in Curdon Cay. Basically the way to incapacitate a conduit is..... wait for it..... (drum roll)..... Bind their hands, all conduit abilities are somehow connected through the use of their hands, which is easy to see with how all the character powers we've seen, powers do originate within the arms and hands so finding a means to bind them and unable to use their powers makes a conduit unable to access said powers. Just thought I'd share that because I might throw that into the RP.